“Imagine a building owner who had someone on staff who knew everything going on in your buildings – down to the level of energy usage, foot traffic, maintenance requests, etc. – and had the authority to make real-time, cost-saving decisions and recommendations of future opportunities to owners and managers – instantly,” says Michael Leahey, managing director of denver based renovation or development project financing specialist, PACE Equity. “Most building owners would hire that person in a second,” he added. Leahey is not talking about a human of course but about intelligent building systems that offer all these advantages and more. He is looking beyond the internet of things (IoT) to newer artificially intelligent building management systems (BMS) that are programmed to automatically allocate resources, under changing conditions, at the highest level of efficiency, limited by individualized management rules on cost, comfort and productivity. For Leahey, smart buildings are dumb in comparison to these intelligent facilities. […]